On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

Jones, the writer, bon vivant, and for many years editor of The Times Literary Supplement. David was an only child. He was ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

Such radical evolution has also been characteristic of the later American military, which has often been faulted for entering ...

T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...

In his 1971 book Appreciating the Theater: Cues for Theatergoers, Julian M. Kaufman describes how theater was initially a ...

Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, ...

O r perhaps we should alter Catullus and say “vale atque ave.” With this issue, we bid fond farewell to our beloved Adam ...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so the adman sayeth. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) would beg to differ. The Impressionists were not the spontaneous image-makers they were ...

On April 1917: The Red Wheel, Node IV, Book 1, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Clare Kitson. Once again, “the historical novel turns into dramatized history,” based on a faithful “depiction ...